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– Avon and the Avon Foundation for Women have announced a new $300,000 partnership with the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) – The partnership will build awareness and education about gender-based violence to reach millions of women and girls – Announced in line with the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Read More
On October 17th, 2019, the Women’s Foundation California (WFC) celebrated its fortieth anniversary with a major announcement: the organization pledged $40 million to gender justice, and began its groundbreaking campaign to raise the funds to facilitate another forty years of gender justice grantmaking. Less than a month later, the WFC is more than halfway to Read More
Women comprise a large and growing percentage of the global workforce, yet they often work under unhealthy and difficult conditions, including harassment and violence, that are damaging to them, and to their families and communities. In textile, garment and shoe manufacturing, as well as flower farming and tea, coffee, and cocoa processing, women comprise 50 Read More
A new learning institute for women of color will be created out of the former estate of Madam C.J. Walker, as the New Voices Foundation announced last week that it will purchase the site and repurpose it for women of color entrepreneurship. Madam C. J. Walker was the founder of a hair care empire and Read More
Collectively, state legislatures passed 288 restrictions on women’s reproductive rights between 2010 to 2015. Now, a new film tells the stories of women’s horrific health experiences, and the imprisonments, both actual and threatened, that are a consequence of these laws. Birthright: A War Story is a new documentary that exposes the radical religious right’s infiltration state Read More
As the fate of Michelle Obama’s signature philanthropy program, Let Girls Learn, hangs in the balance, the Women’s Foundation of Colorado is planning a live conversation with the Former First Lady to discuss ways to advance empowerment for girls and women worldwide. Related: Will the Trump Administration Let Girls Learn, or End One of Philanthropy’s Most Read More
Of the $71.4 trillion dollars controlled by the asset management industry, only 1.1 percent of total assets under management are with firms owned by women and minorities. You heard that right. Although the number of firms that are women- or minority-owned can range from 3 to 9% across the four different asset categories in the Read More
Kiersten Marek, of Philanthropy Women, will be on a panel for a webinar presented by the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) on January 30, 2024 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time, (12:00 PM Central Time). The discussion is scheduled for one hour. The central topic will be how women’s philanthropy will transform itself in 2024. The US Read More
The healthcare profession has been promising to increase the number of women included in clinical trials for decades. To be blunt, this has not happened. Women are still woefully underrepresented in virtually all clinical trials. Even the majority of lab mice are male. Not only do researchers fail to include enough women in clinical trials, Read More
Women and girls represent more than half of the population of the United States. Despite this, charitable giving to organizations serving them represents less than 2% of all philanthropic activity in the U.S. This is according to a new report published Wednesday, October 11 – the International Day of the Girl. The Women & Girls Read More
